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journeyed southward ; that during the course of their long-continued 

 migrations they changed rather rapidly from a semi-nomadic to a 

 sedentary life as they approached the Rio Colorado. Having 

 gained the " red rock " country and having found, for the first time, 

 natural caves that increased the protection aiTorded by their small 

 dwellings, they became more closely related, if not identical, in cul- 

 ture to those people commonly recognized as the ancestors of the 

 modern Pueblo Indians. 



Fig. 71. — Walls of rectangular dwellings built above tbe remains of a 

 circular room. The upright slabs in the foreground formed the inner 

 wall base of the latter structure. 



FIELD WORK ON THE IROQUOIS OF NEW YORK AND CANADA 



Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt left Washington May 12, 1919, on field duty. 

 On the Onondaga reservation near Syracuse, N. Y., he found only 

 fragmentary remnants of the League rituals, laws and chants, aggre- 

 gating less than 2,000 native terms ; but these rituals, laws and chants 

 are so much broken and wasted away, and their several remaining 

 parts are so confused and intermixed the one wnth the other that 

 with these remains alone it would be quite impossible to obtain even 

 an approximate view of their original content, forms, and settings. 

 The texts which Mr. Hewitt has recorded among the Canadian 

 Iroquois aggregate more than 125.000 native terms. During the two 

 weeks spent on this reservation Air. Hewitt recorded in Onondap"a 



